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contrary to what Augustus had originally practiced, letters wrap around instead of presenting a special case.\n\n\n\u003e \"Whenever he wrote in cipher, he wrote B for A, C for B, and the rest of the letters on the same principle, using AA for X.\"\n\nSuetonius, _Life of Augustus_ 88\n\n\n# Installation\nThrough `pip`:\n```bash\nλ\u003e python -m pip install stepped-augustus\n```\n\n# Usage\nAs a CLI application:\n```bash\nλ\u003e augustus -h\nusage: augustus [-h] [--direction {left,right}] [--multiplier MULTIPLIER] message\n\nCiphers a given message.\n\npositional arguments:\n  message               The message to be ciphered\n\noptional arguments:\n  -h, --help            show this help message and exit\n  --direction {left,right}\n                        The direction to cipher the message to\n  --multiplier MULTIPLIER\n                        The multiplier to be applied when ciphering a message\n\nλ\u003e augustus \"Hello, World\" --direction right --multiplier 1\nIgopt, Xqupi\n\nλ\u003e augustus \"Igopt, Xqupi\" --direction left --multiplier 1\nHello, World\n```\nAs a package:\n```python\n\u003e\u003e\u003e from augustus import SteppedAugustus as SA\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e SA(\"Hello, World\", 1).right_cipher\n'Igopt, Xqupi'\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e SA(\"Igopt, Xqupi\", 1).left_cipher\n'Hello, World'\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # Alternatively the _cipher method can be used for lazy\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # evaluation and customizing the direction.\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e for char in SA(\"Hello\", 1)._cipher(1):\n...     print(char)\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # Additionally, skip_chars and stop_chars can specified\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # to semantically modify the behaviour of the algorithm.\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # Shifts with 10234\n\u003e\u003e\u003e SA(\"Hello\", skip_chars=\"H\").right_cipher\n'Ienos'\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # Shifts with 11234\n\u003e\u003e\u003e SA(\"Hello\", stop_chars=\"e\").right_cipher\n'Ifnos'\n\u003e\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e\u003e # Shifts with 10123\n\u003e\u003e\u003e SA(\"Hello\", skip_chars=\"e\", stop_chars=\"e\").right_cipher\n'Iemnr'\n```\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpurefunctor%2Fstepped-augustus","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpurefunctor%2Fstepped-augustus","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpurefunctor%2Fstepped-augustus/lists"}